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Gleaming vs Beaming - What's the difference?

gleaming | beaming |

As adjectives the difference between gleaming and beaming

is that gleaming is having a bright sheen while beaming is smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.

As nouns the difference between gleaming and beaming

is that gleaming is a flash or reflected light while beaming is the act of someone or something that beams.

As verbs the difference between gleaming and beaming

is that gleaming is present participle of lang=en while beaming is present participle of lang=en.

gleaming

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a bright sheen.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flash or reflected light.

    • Synonyms

    * shining, glowing, glinting

    Verb

    (head)

    • beaming

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
  • * c.1846-1848 , ,
    • The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming' and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more ' beaming and more happy, every day.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of someone or something that beams.
  • * 1826 , Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt
    • The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things

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